Happy Valley Toll Office is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 1976. Toll office.

Happy Valley Toll Office

WRENN ID
roaming-frieze-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 March 1976
Type
Toll office
Address
Happy Valley Toll Office, Llandudno
OS grid reference
SH 781 831
Coordinates
53.33114, -3.83062
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Happy Valley Toll Office is a 19th-century toll office constructed with rusticated stone blocks of various rectangular and square sizes. It features embattled parapets with mock machicolation. To the right of the office, there is a pedestrian arch. The building is a narrow single-storey structure that includes a vaulted pedestrian passageway on the north-east side, which retains remnants of cast-iron toll gates and an unglazed window opening with a pointed head in the wall facing the sea. The entrance to the pedestrian passage is through a pointed archway on the south-east elevation, above which is a plaque inscribed with: "Great Ormes Head/Marine Drive/ - Chairman Joseph Evans/-Directors-/St John Charton JP Thomas Williams/James Nichol MD Major J L Thursby/Secretary RS Chamberlain/Engineer A Foulkes/Erected 1878". The south-east elevation of the lodge features a bay window with sash lights, while the south-west elevation includes a buttress.

Local climate

Happy Valley Toll Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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